I really don't get how Isaac can be loyal to these guys... has been driving me nuts since episode 4 when it was revealed the Meachum would've gotten him and BLS killed in their first assignment together if it hadn't been for BLS. And he went from that to giving BLS up as the fall guy for the assassination and trying to kill him more than once.
shareFollowing the arc of Isaac Johnson's character has been a rough ride, but fascinating. I don't think anyone could have done it quite as well as Omar Epps.
Did you see the final minutes of the last episode? Isaac was a mole for the Foreign Secretary and whoever her operatives were. Unfortunately for him he was such deep cover that he had to commit murder (Donny's mom) while under cover as well as jeopardizing BLS's life.
It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
RIP Roger Ebert
The USA doesn't have a Foreign Secretary. It has a Secretary of State instead. That official has relatively little intelligence responsibilities.
If you meant the tough older gal, apparently Beverly D'Angelo, I believe she was the President's National Security Advisor -- also an important position. Depending on the President and the Advisor the importance of this position ebbs and flows, since it is not a cabinet appointment. The more powerful Advisors are powerful because everyone realizes they enjoy the full confidence of the POTUS.
On the other hand, some Advisors, Kissinger, and Condaleeza Rice, were promoted to Secretary of State. But, I imagine, that those promotions were promotions, because they had enjoyed so much of the POTUS's confidence they had eclipsed their predecessor as Secretary of State, and that their own (hand-picked) successor was more of a figurehead, because they would continue to enjoy the POTUS's confidence.
As to the SecState's intelligence responsibilities, it was SecState Stimson who, in 1929, thundered "Gentlemen do not read one another's mail!" to Herbert Yardley, when he emerged from the shadows to explain to Stimson that his Department helped fund a secret code-breaking agency, which decoded all the USA's foreign ambassadors' coded telegrams to their political masters.
Yes, I know she is the Natl Security Advisor. It was just a momentary slip of the pen, as it were. But my original point remains.
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It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
RIP Roger Ebert
Isaac would have been shot at the first time Bob got him in his sights.
He has shown several times that he can not be trusted,and would be dead.